>Think about it: who has the most to gain from creating a mob mentality that
>will cause the critics on ars to turn against critics and FACTNet, the only
>counter cult group willing to confront scientology?

I think it is extremely important for all of us to realize that scientology
does consider this a war, and they are utilizing all of the tactics of warfare
that they have learned from their policies and the books they are assigned to
read as part of their intelligence training. The booklist that we were all
required to read included Sun Tzu's The Art of War, Clausewitz's On War, and
Sefton Delmar's Black Boomerang, a book which was included because it was
about successful black PR operations during World War II.

This attack on FACTNet has all the earmarks of an OSA black PR operation, and
so far it has been working very well.

Let me give you a quote from a scientology bulletin titled The Third Party
Law, 26 December 1968:

"I have for a long time studied the causes of violence and conflict amongst
individuals and nations.

"If Chaldea could vanish, if Babylon could turn to dust, if Egypt could become
a badlands, if Sicily could have 160 prosperous cities and be a looted ruin
before the year zero and a near desert ever since - and all this in SPITE of
all the work and wisdom and good wishes and intent of human beings, then it
must follow as the dark follows sunset that something must be unknown to Man
concerning all his works and ways. And that this something must be so deadly
and so pervasive as to destroy all his ambitions and his chances long before
their time.

"Such a thing would have to be some natural law unguessed at by himself.

"And there is such a law, apparently, that answers these conditions of being
deadly, unknown and embracing all activities.

"The law would seem to be:

"A THIRD PARTY MUST BE PRESENT AND UNKNOWN IN EVERY QUARREL FOR A CONFLICT TO
EXIST.

"Or:

"FOR A QUARREL TO OCCUR, AN UNKOWN THIRD PARTY MUST BE ACTIVE IN PRODUCING IT
BETWEEN TWO POTENTIAL OPPONENTS.

"Or:

"WHILE IT IS COMMONLY BELIEVED TO TAKE TWO TO MAKE A FIGHT, A THIRD PARTY MUST
EXIST AND MUST DEVELOP IT FOR ACTUAL CONFLICT TO OCCUR.

"It is very easy to see that two in conflict are fighting. They are very
visible. What is harder to see or suspect is that a third party existed and
actively promoted the quarrel…."

The point is not whether this is true or not, or whether Hubbard was
delusional or whether his hyperbolic writing style was even worth the paper it
was printed on. The point is that scientologists believe this Third Party Law
to be utterly and unfailingly true. And what they call "Third Party tech" is
one of the main intelligence tools they use to break up any organized
resistance against them.

This is what is being done on ars. For those who remember COINTELPRO, this is
how the FBI broke up organizations like the Black Panther Party. They used
agents provocateurs. They created rifts between the leaders. They got them at
each other's throats, and then let them destroy their own organization. The
FBI just sat back and watched them destroy themselves.

What I am trying to say is that scientology has a new strategy. It is to use
ars to destroy FACTNet so that FACTNet will be powerless to help anyone coming
out of scientology. Please don't assist them in this srategy.

If you have a disagreement with something FACTNet has done, or something that
an associate of FACTNet has done, we should get together to discuss our
differences. But don't let scientology manipulate us into becoming enemies. We
aren't enemies. We have common goals.

Don't let scientology drive a wedge between us. We should be working together.